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Sex Mad: Why the Rightblogger Obsession With Ladyparts Never Ends

With all the recent women's health controversies -- Komen/Planned Parenthood, contraception in Catholic hospitals, and Virginia's plan to wand women who want abortions -- and their potential to steer women's votes away from Republicans, you'd think conservatives would prefer to get back to talking a ... More >>

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Free Will Astrology: May 4-May 10, 2011

Today in El Diario: Peruvians Face Awful Presidential Choice

​Ex-militant vs. Authoritarian for Peruvian President In Peru's upcoming presidential runoffs, the Andean nation is faced with two polemic picks for the next head of state: leftist ex-militant Ollanta Humala and Keiko Fujimori, daughter of ex-president Alberto Fujimori, who many fear will vio ... More >>

WikiLeaks Reveals Chinese Leaders Googling Themselves

​"Egosurfing," also known as vanity searching, egosearching, egogoogling, autogoogling, self-googling, master-googling, is now officially a geopolitical issue causing tension between China and the United States. The latest WikiLeaks dump includes diplomatic cables about the problems of balanci ... More >>

Oliver Stone and His Presidential Pals Team Up in South of the Border

Natural born shillers

Hugo Chávez Hires Hundreds of Ghost-Tweeters

​The president of Venezuela -- "Socialista y Antiimperialista" according to his bio -- has over 230,000 followers on Twitter. And it seems dealing with a blooming social media presence while running a sometimes unstable nation has proven to be more than Hugo Chávez can handle, so he's doing a ... More >>

Co-Sign: Das Racist's Shut Up Dude Mixtape

​Things to love here: "You Oughta Know"'s Terror Squad-checking, blissfully incoherent take on the Cam'ron track of the same name; the slurry Tribe homage "Who's That Brown"; all the self-deprecating, happily schizophrenic jokes on "Shorty Said"; the bit on "Ek Shaneesh" that goes "I am a pick ... More >>

Take Donald Glover, Aziz Ansari, and Das Racist's Joke Rap Seriously

A new generation of MCs grapple with how funny they're allowed to be

Let's Not Even Pretend That The Cover Of Das Racist's Shut Up, Dude Isn't Of Interest To Us

​So there you have it. Way less nudity than I might have feared, it's true. (And, as Zach points out, perhaps an inadvertent Jawbreaker reference.) Here also is a brief, also nudity-free promo clip for the long awaited Das Racist mixtape, which Sean Fennessey discusses at length for us in this ... More >>

Queens Rep. Gregory Meeks Probed for Influence-Peddling on Schemer Allen Stanford's Behalf -- With Hugo Chavez!

Clothes make the man: Wearing a stylish blue blazer is Sir Allen Stanford. Modeling an off-the-rack orange jumpsuit is jailbird Allen Stanford.Queens congressman Gregory Meeks is in deep trouble because of his alleged political favors to accused swindler Allen Stanford in an international intrigue ... More >>

Snooty Weekly, Staten Island Daily Endorse Bloomberg

​The New York Observer and the Staten Island Advance today endorse Mayor Bloomberg's third term (the Advance "strongly," the Observer in a tasteful shade of salmon). The proletarian Advance shakes its head that some people, upset by Bloomberg's overthrow of term limits, are planning to vote a ... More >>

Inside the Heads of Obama's Health Care Town-Hall Rowdies

Top Buried NY Post Stories: Hugo Chavez is Right, 3OH!3 Slanders Helen Keller

Sometimes the most fascinating items in the New York Post are buried in the lifestyle coverage. Today Reed Tucker's "Diet Soda Diatribe" takes off from Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez ' claim that Coke Zero is bad for you. While saying up front, as all good Americans must, that Chavez "would love n ... More >>

Leaked: Travelin' Governor Sanford's Press Conference Remarks

The Village Voice has obtained an advance copy of the remarks that recently-missing South Carolina governor Mark Sanford will make at today's 2 p.m. press conference. Good afternoon. Or, should I say, ¡buenas tardes! As you all know, there has been a bit of confusion about my whereabouts sin ... More >>

What's New in Coup? Espada Claims 2 Votes in Senate, Kills Housing Bills; D.A. Expands Inquiry; Maid Allegedly Questioned

Like Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Pedro Espada has claimed special powers: he says that as perhaps-legitimately-elected president of the state senate, he is also lieutenant governor in the absence of an elected one, and can have two votes. To take down this lunatic, the Bronx District Attorne ... More >>

Groovy Hate F*ck: Playboy, Rightbloggers, and the Death of South Park Conservatism

Last week Playboy did a crude take on conservative women whom the author, Guy Cimbalo, said he would like to "hate-fuck." Attacks on the piece, which was quickly pulled (though excerpts quoted in the commentary, as well as captured screenshots, testify to its ugliness), were numerous. The few li ... More >>

Duff McKagan Wrote About Flying for Today's New York Times, Though You Wouldn't Know It

Michael McKagan, better known as former Guns 'N Roses bassist/current Loaded frontman/guest-SOTC contributor Duff, has a 600-word piece in today's Times about his lifetime of experiences flying. Unlike, say, Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson, who piloted his band's private 757 across the world l ... More >>

Pat Buchanan on the Miserable Not-Yet-Failure of the Obama Presidency

Unless you watch Sunday morning talkshows, you may have forgotten Pat Buchanan, the lovable scamp who at the 1992 Republican Convention called for patriots to take back their culture as the cops did during the L.A. riots -- with semi-automatic weapons, and block by block. Today he's back on the inte ... More >>

Rightblogger: Don't Call Obama a Socialist -- Socialist Americans Might Like Him More

President Obama today announced his support for credit card legislation moving through Congress, which would trim some of the tricks such companies use to keep unfortunate users in eternal indentured servitude. He's going to meet with credit card executives, hopefully to lay down the law. This is of ... More >>

Vanguard of the Senate Revolution

When no one else will, Kruger and Espada battle on behalf of the people

Liveblogging the Term Limits Vote Part II (Referendumania! Amendment Defeated)

Krauts Sour on Wall Street Bailout

The Harrowing Adventures of President Obama

Looking back on his first term

Rotten Tomatoes: Republicans Defeat Windfall Oil Profits Tax

Who Will Replace Ted Kennedy in the Senate?

Iraq: The News You Haven't Read

The Inconvenient Death of Brad Will

Mexican police gun down a counterculture hero

How to Kill a War in 10 Not-So-Easy Steps

Desperate times call for desperate measures—like talking to lobbyists

Alternative Realities

Cosmic commies, Christian rockers, and gay Republicans at the 13th annual NYUFF

Revival Tent: Preacher Lies to Choir, Choir Eats it Up

Searching for Bush's Jesus

Laid in a manger, abridged in the White House

Heading South

Bubbling crude plans by the Bush team aimed at Venezuela's Chávez

Morning Report 10/10/05
Whitening Strikes New Orleans

Morning Report 9/17/05
Hugo Batters Bush

CAFTA Meets Katrina

And more than the fiscal health of an American city hangs in the balance

The Two Minutes Hate

Bush Against the Ropes

Democrats ought to be able to put him away, but you know how they are

Peace March Veers Way Left

Black-led protest challenges capitalism, imperialism, and New York's very rich mayor

Fueling 'Democracy'

My Goal Or Your Goal? Documenting the Biased Docmaker

Recall Sequel in Venezuela? Hugo Your Way, We'll Go Ours

Uncle Sam's Crude Solution

Our Expensive, Deadly Role as Global Oil Police

Quid Pro Coup

The 'Times' Condones Censorship, Venezuelan Style

Karen Hughes Finds Her Ruby Slippers

Spy Planes and Bibles and Talibs, Oh My!

'Sun' Rise, 'Sun' Set

Conservative Paper Sings to the Masses

Tearing Down the Wall

Two Views of Democracy Battle in Quebec City

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